Re: [squid-users] Performance Issues Using NTML

On lör, 2007-11-10 at 14:34 +1300, Amos Jeffries wrote:

> > auth_param ntlm children 25
> > auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
>
> 25 helpers. Are they really needed? can much of the load on these be
> done concurrently?

For NTLM you need lots of helpers due to the chatty nature of the NTLM
protocol. And also the number of helpers does not have much impact on
load.. All that happens if you have too many is that Squid uses a little
bit more memory as there is more helper processes spawned each using a
bit of memory..

REgards
Henrik